The Lost Villages: Rediscovering Britain’s Vanished Communities

Henry Buckton

£22.50

Published by I.B.Tauris

30 April 2008

Hardback

ISBN: 9781845116712

The Lost Villages: Rediscovering Britain’s Vanished Communities

Henry Buckton

£22.50

From the many thousands of British villages which are now no more than
ruins, Henry Buckton visits and describes 21 that have been deserted
comparatively recently, from the end of the 19th century to the
beginning of the 20th. The reasons for their disappearance are manifold:
Stocks in Bowland for instance was flooded in 1930s to provide a
reservoir for the towns of the North West; Hallsands in Devon was
claimed by a violent storm in 1917 after the Royal Navy had removed its
natural sea defences; and Imber in Wiltshire and Tyneham in Dorset were
requisitioned by the MoD during the Second World War, and never
returned. Henry Buckton combines archive and modern photographs of the
villages with personal recollections of those who knew them as they
were, and who witnessed their sad ends.